As for some of these goals, examples were cited earlier of the methods Scientologists used to
get known and to get their methods taught in schools. The Australian
Inquiry found that the Scientologists had explored the possibility of
promoting Scientology in various government departments. They said that
they "considered the Education Department to be a good procurement area"
and made some effort to "infiltrate it," but with no real success.{3}

In East Grinstead, Scientology owns a number of houses
and stores.{8} The Scientologists also tried to buy
Lundy Island in England,{9} which is inaccessible for
large portions of the year, "as a retreat for people with nervous
disorders," one paper quoted the Scientologists as saying.{10} (According to another British paper, they were
planning to buy it as a refuge for foreign students to beat the
Government ban on their coming into the country.{11})

Hubbard has also been accused of getting entangled with
politics while he was in Rhodesia,{24} and, in fact,
may have been barred from that country a few years ago.{25} The Daily Mail in England reported that this
occurred because the Rhodesian authorities believed he was using the
political situation in that country to expand Scientology. At first no
one complained: Hubbard had invested nearly $80,000 in Rhodesia; he
bought a house for a reputed $40,000 and a hotel to "show his confidence
in the country and its government" -- although they were worthwhile
investments for him, too, because Scientology was said to have taken in
$25,000 in a city of only 45,000 whites.